Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit (FPSO) is designed to produce, store and transport hydrocarbon products. FPSO's hawsers may be exposed to both extreme and fatigue loads during operations. Hence prediction of their fatigue life is important for operational safety. During some unloading operations, consistent hawser tensions could develop as a result of internal friction in nylon ropes, casing wear and accumulated fatigue damage. Methodology, suggested in this study, may be effectively employed at the vessel design phase, when optimizing vessel parameters, reducing potential FPSO hawser tension fatigue damage. This study aims to contribute to development of novel fatigue assessment approaches, in order to use limited available datasets more effectively. Stresses occurring within FPSO hawsers have been modelled, using actual in situ environmental conditions. Simulated continuous stress time series were used as input for the rainflow counting analysis; the cumulative fatigue damage was then evaluated. Note on experimental validation has been provided.


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    Title :

    Fatigue assessment for FPSO hawsers


    Contributors:
    Vladimir Yakimov (author) / Oleg Gaidai (author) / Fang Wang (author) / Xiaosen Xu (author) / Yuhao Niu (author) / Wang Kelin (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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